Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Every one carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triu…

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes: Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes.

God said, 'I am tired of kings,'- But that was a long while ago! And meantime man said, 'No,- I like their looks in their robes and rings.' So he crowned a few…

The average 'educated' American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at …